Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well it was beside the point because you , you had an appointment did n't you ? |
| 2 | So he was born de Lisle , and it was at the point that he was in military school that he added the Rouget , you know , like having a double barrelled name , |
| 3 | It was on the point of Joe 's tongue to say ‘ I doubt it ’ , but what he said was , ‘ I do n't see why not . ’ |
| 4 | There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in . |
| 5 | Repeated many times over , the words of Luhnenschloss finally came to the notice of the RSPCA last year and were used as part of further discussions it was on the point of entering into with the Jockey Club in the hope of further reform . |